One of the BBC's'100 Novels That Shaped Our World''One of the few English novels written for grown-up people'Virginia WoolfGeorge Eliot's nuanced and moving novel is a masterly evocation of connected lives,changing fortunes and human frailties in a provincial community. Peopling its landscape are Dorothea Brooke,a young idealist whose search for intellectual fulfilment leads her into a disastrous marriage to the pedantic scholar Casaubon; Dr Lydgate,whose pioneering medical methods,combined with an imprudent marriage to the spendthrift beauty Rosamond,threaten to undermine his career; and the religious hypocrite Bulstrode,hiding scandalous crimes from his past.Edited with an Introduction and notes by ROSEMARY ASHTON
Publisher: Penguin Books LtdISBN: 9780141196893Number of pages: 880Weight: 1008 gDimensions: 204 x 138 x 54 mm
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"No Victorian novel approaches Middlemarch in its width of reference,its intellectual power,or the imperturbable spaciousness of its narrative."-V. S. Pritchett
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